The Teaching Gap
  • I had no thoughts on differences between German, American and Japanese schools. I suppose that inherent cultural differences would dictate that differences exists in content and style of teaching and learning, but I'm not sure how these differences would manifest themselves.
  • Key ideas thus-far;
    • current teaching reforms exist on paper but are not necessarily being implemented in the classrooms
    • TIMSS indicates that a "learning gap" exists between American performance and that of German & Japanese performances.